Body Modification

This lecture was very, very interesting. People do modify their bodies, anything from changing your hairstyle to cutting you hair. But obviously it wouldn't be this module without looking into the most disturbing and controversial forms of behaviour.

We saw some very extreme measures of body modification, involving tattoos and piercings that were a little hard to watch in places.

But the people that are doing these types of things are not bad, they are just doing their best to not conform to the conventional images of western society. Pushing the boundaries of whats socially acceptable and what isn't, this again leads to people classing it as bad. Simply because they wouldn't want a genital piecing for example.

I think that a lot of people get a tattoo thinking that its a cool, new thing to do. But i think it's just jumping on the bandwagon. By getting a tattoo your not being different your being just like the however million people that have tattoos also. That's just my opinion. I found some interesting information on this website http://people.howstuffworks.com/tattoo.htm.

Also piercings, I've got my ears pierced and that wasn't to rebel as I'm sure most women have it done too. But there are a lot of people that get around 5 or 6 piercings to stand out, but once again you blend in. Its not like no-one has ever seen the 'Madonna' or the lip piercings that everyone seems to have these days. Once again this is not rebelling against societal norms because most of society do have some form of facial piercing.

People that get them done for sexual arousal purposes or any other reason that's fine, so long as you keep it private and to yourself and don't show society. Because if society don't do it, then it's very very bad (arguably).